Our sole mission is to fund ALS research to find a cure.

Welcome to ALS Finding a Cure®

The sole purpose of the ALS Finding a Cure® Foundation is funding research to find a cure.

In the summer of 2014, The ALS Association received a tremendous response to the "Ice Bucket Challenge." With your help, we would like to keep the momentum going by working with The ALS Association® (ALSA) and our many other amazing affiliates. Our goal is to translate funding into cutting-edge development tools, provide an open platform for neurological research material, understand disease heterogeneity, and promote early detection for those affected by ALS.

GE, one of our most important collaborators, has developed breakthrough technology to better understand the brain. Their imaging scanner and software have allowed our research to gain neurological information through what GE calls "Mapping the Mind."

Our team of researchers is led by our Chief Medical Officer Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, Chief of the Neurology Department at Mass General, and the foundation is overseen by Peter N. Foss. ALS Finding a Cure® is a program of the Leandro P. Rizzuto Foundation. We are proud to report that 100% of donations goes directly to funding research.

ALS Finding a Cure® is inspired by and is a tribute to Christie Rizzuto, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2009 at the age of 41. It is Christie, and the many others like her, who drive our work.

The ALS Association and ALS Finding a Cure (ALS FAC) are pleased to announce a call for biomarker discovery projects. The call for proposals is open to academia and industry world-wide and is part of a broader initiative, the "ALS Biomarker Collaboration," encouraging the development of new biomarkers in a pre-competitive space. Proposed projects should be completed over 12-18 months.

Personal Stories. Expert Advice. Living Life with ALS.

ALS Finding a Cure is pleased to launch an eight part video series on living with ALS. In the videos you'll hear from ALS patients, their families and caregivers about how to best plan for the journey ahead, including advice on how to prepare for the different stages of ALS and helpful resources to consider. Our goal is to provide valuable information to help patients and their loved ones be proactive in managing the disease.

Lou Gehrig's Farewell Address

On July 24, 1939, Lou Gehrig delivered the most famous, and heart-wrenching speech in the history of sports to 62,000 fans at Yankee Stadium. This amazingly talented yet humble man could no longer play the game he loved, as his symptoms of ALS worsened. Here are his immortal words that moved and saddened an entire nation.

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break* I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break*, but I've got an awful lot to live for."

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The ALS Finding a Cure Foundation is a qualified 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and donations
are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. No goods or services were provided for this gift.
Please consult your tax advisor regarding specific questions about your deductions.